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Bone Vocabulary
Ways of describing bone characteristics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a deep pit or socket in the maxillae or mandible | alveolus |
| a junction between 2 bones | articulation |
| ear-shaped | auricular |
| cleft into 2 parts or branches | bifid |
| a passageway through a bone | canal/meatus |
| a little head | capitulum |
| a spiral structure shaped like a seashell | concha |
| a large, smooth, rounded articulating oval structure | condyle |
| a projection shaped like a crow's beak | coracoid |
| a triangular projection ending in a sharp point | coronoid |
| associated with or a part of the ribs | costal |
| a narrow, prominent ridgelike projection | crest |
| perforated like a sieve | cribiform |
| wedge-shaped | cuneiform |
| half of a facet, part of an articular surface shared by 2 adjacent bones | demifacet |
| the middle of a long bone, the shaft | diaphysis |
| the projection adjacent to a condyle | epicondyle |
| the end of a long bone | epiphysis |
| a small, flat, narrow articulating surface | facet |
| a narrow, slit-like opening through a bone | fissure |
| a rounded passageway through a bone | foramen |
| a flattened, shallow depression | fossa |
| a small depression | fovea |
| shaped like a shallow socket | glenoid |
| a gap | hiatus |
| a flat, thin plate | lamina |
| a low ridge, less prominent than a crest | line |
| a club-/hammer-shaped process | malleolus |
| breast-shaped | mastoid |
| a V-shaped indentation | notch |
| associated with the nape of the neck | nuchal |
| a supporting column or stalk | pedicle |
| like a rock | petrous |
| any marked bony prominence | process |
| a high place | promontory |
| wing-like | pterygoid |
| an angular extension of a bone relative to the rest of the structure | ramus |
| a partition | septum |
| a cavity or hollow space in a bone | sinus |
| a pointed, slender process | spine |
| flat, scale-like | squamous |
| pointed, pen-like | styloid |
| a narrow groove | sulcus |
| the line of union in an unmovable articulation | suture |
| a massive projection only found on the femur | trochanter |
| a smooth, grooved pulley-like articular process | trochlea |
| a small, round protrusion | tubercle |
| a large, rough protrusion | tuberosity |
| shaped like a sword | xiphoid |
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